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A Convenient Life Of Bacon Bacon. By Charles Williams....

Barker. 10s.) SPEDDING devoted 40 years of his life to an attempt to prove that Bacon was as upright as he was great—" washing his Blackamoor," said Fitzgerald. Mr. Charles......

A Week-end Party

Spectator's Gallery : Essays, Sketches, Short Stories and Poems from " The Spectator," 1932. Edited by Peter Fleming and Derek Verschoyle. (Cape. 7s. 6d.) IT was the custom in......

A Gerthan Outlook

Es werde Deutschland: By Friedrich Sieburg. (Frankfurt-am- ' Main: Societlits-Veklag..) HERR SIEBURG, known to English readers by a recent book on France, is concerned' in his......